Beschreibung
This book interprets our current cultural educational practices of marginalizing civic education and the humanities and enacting charter school laws under free-market rationale as representing the erosion of the public in public schools in the name of a particular (i.e., neoliberal) conception of freedom, which neglects democratic goals and democratic control of the schools in favor of market ideology. Market ideology holds a neoliberal conception of freedom as a supreme value. By examining the neoliberal philosophy of freedom as presented by Friedrich A. Hayek in his work, The Constitution of Liberty, it is shown that within Hayeks philosophical framework an ethical dilemma arises between democratic public goods and freedom (i.e., concern for the public good is seen as the greatest threat to liberty). And freedom most often wins. What results is economic oppression, and public spaces - such as schools, the media, and the environment - being eroded in the name of freedom. Therefore, making sense of freedom from a neoliberal standpoint contributes to the erosion of the public in public schools.
Autorenporträt
Robert Karaba - Assistant Professor - Educational Leadership, New Mexico Highlands University 8/2013 - Present. Ph.D., Miami University of Ohio, Educational Administration, 2007. M.A., Colorado State University, Philosophy, 2001. B.S. Miami University of Ohio, Organizational Administration, 1983.
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